Example sentences of "[pron] [adv] expect the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | It said ‘ Junk Shop ’ outside but I hardly expected the sign to be this literal . |
2 | I also expect the companies selling them to finally give up and start calling them computers — which , of course , is what they are . |
3 | But I never expected the reaction it got coming from me . |
4 | I never expected the job to be perfect but I was surprised by the nature of the problem . |
5 | ‘ I knew I had landed my 100th winner , ’ Charlie told me ‘ but I never expected the sort of reaction I received from the crowd . |
6 | He can usually take for granted initial student motivation , educational level and intelligence ; he is part of a system which already expects the student to spend a considerable proportion of his time in private study , and which usually provides at least minimal facilities for this to take place . |
7 | Czechoslovakia , a democratic state with a mass socialist and trade-union movement , had been handed to the Nazis by the National government , which now expected the labour movement to support a war for Poland , a society much less attractive to democrats let alone socialists . |
8 | Continuing with the Lois Lane example , suppose that she still expects the price of kryptonite futures to rise relative to that of phlogiston futures ( ignoring the effects of any general price movements on their relative prices ) , and she has no views about general price movements . |
9 | The scene was so vivid and lifelike you almost expected the bear to move or the tree to bend . |
10 | She fully expected the basement door to be bolted . |
11 | ‘ You never expected the news of your engagement to Mr Massingham to stay a secret for long , did you ? ’ |
12 | But would you seriously expect the Government to subsidise that ? . |
13 | But there are still many people shocked by the events of the past few days , who never expected the Army to be prepared to launch rocket and artillery attacks on civilian targets . |
14 | In speech , lacking these devices , we naturally expect the prosody to be called into play — but we must beware that we do not exaggerate its role . |
15 | It 's much better , I feel , from the public 's point of view , for us simply to say ‘ Yes , I think although it will be cloudy until the latter end of the morning that we confidently expect the sun to break through , and then when it 's through it 'll stay with us through the afternoon . |
16 | We also expect the expert to inform us what is in our best interests , for how can we know this when the technical grounds for such judgements are , by definition , outside our competence . |
17 | Some of the craters look so fresh that one almost expects the rocks still to be warm . |
18 | We therefore expect the Tunguska fireball to have reached a height above its airburst altitude appropriate to a nuclear surface burst . |
19 | In 1978 they already expected the measures , not announced until 1981 , to restrict quantities of money held by individuals . |
20 | Having systematically run down and denigrated public services since 1979 , they now expect the country to be grateful for being offered lower standards of service than we used to enjoy , and ones that are derisory in the light of what is enjoyed in many other European countries . |
21 | But they were separated from al-Dhouri and Jassim by a line of soldiers clutching their Kalashnikovs , as if they fully expected the platform to be stormed by the pre-pubescent performers . |
22 | Yet they never expected the Duke of Edinburgh to accompany the Queen everywhere , or Mark Phillips to be seen with Princess Anne . |
23 | My fears were shared by youthful friends and even adult relatives at times seemed to ‘ chivvy ’ us along as if they too expected the ghost train to rush by . |
24 | They therefore expect the companies they work for to support the providers of those services , in some way , and they want to play their part too , in delivering those services , and I have quite a lot to say about that , later on . |
25 | When a firm buys a new machine , it presumably expects the yield of the investment to exceed its cost . |
26 | Like many other Nazareans , he still expects the dissolution of creation . |
27 | He confidently expects the day to yield a crushing English victory , a Triple Crown , a Grand Slam and absolutely no bloody problem . |
28 | He unselfconsciously expects the reader to be as interested as he is in Jean de Meung or Alanus . |
29 | Does not he equally expect the rule of law to be observed on both sides of the Irish border ? |
30 | Well aware that most workers were indifferent to foreign affairs , he fully expected the majority of them to be swept into fratricide by patriotic propaganda if war actually came . |